"The past is a closed door."

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Margaret Atwood

#Past Quotes #Doors Quotes #Closed Doors Quotes

“EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.”
“Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Molly Make-Believe”, p.7, The Floating Press
“I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.”

Source : Toronto Star, November 11, 2010.
“I truly loved doing the videos, but it has been hard hearing all the time that you're just the Aerosmith chick.”
“The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.”
“When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“I see myself as a very successful entrepreneur. Maybe making films or else starting my own clothesline. I see myself as a corporate woman, sitting on the 16th floor of a swank office with a glass window that overlooks the Manhattan skyline.”
“As Gandhi famously responded when asked about "Western civilization," "I wish they had one," the same applies to "international community": "I wish there was one."”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

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